Right now it is 15 degrees outside, and we have gotten about a foot of snow in the last twenty-four hours, so I thought I would try to think of the hope that Spring brings. More importantly, I thought I would reflect on how Spring is actually sneaking up on us pretty quickly! Even typing […]
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My father has always been a list maker. Whether it was packing stuff to go on vacation, things to do, or a very detailed budget, he had a list. As you can imagine, we have quite the series of lists for the farm. Every enterprise has a list. Every month until July has a list,
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Winter has come and that makes it a bit harder to do most of the outside activities and work we want to do. We still go outside to do the necessities such as feeding and watering the chickens, gathering the eggs, loading up the outdoor wood furnace (which is awesome by the way!), and shoveling,
We are now safely into the zone of Christmas music and holiday cheer (if you go for that sort of thing). ‘Tis the season, after all, for us to be grateful for all that we have, especially those dear to us and Jesus Christ, who sacrificed his life for us so that we may not
Starting this past weekend, a few of the Hust Roosters began what appears to be a long and arduous journey. We made our first soap. It turns out that making soap is a pretty simple process. It still took us four attempts to get it right (it is amazing how many problems are actually very
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For all of our ideas and plans and dreams, there is one that, in my opinion, is clearly the most bizarre. Goats, pigs, chickens… those are all things that fit into my farmyard mind. They make sense to me. Tilapia, however, are a bit different. I don’t usually think of them when I think about
Well, it’s officially cold now, and except for some stolen pockets of warmth, outside projects are about done for the year… unless you count shoveling as an outside project. I do not. Already, I am looking forward to spring. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want life to skip over the holidays (that would make
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If you are like I was before I was converted to the idea of vermiculture (that is the fancy word for worm farming, specifically to use worms to make compost or use/sell as bait), you are relatively certain that there are a lot of other more pressing matters than worm farming. After all, you or
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Photo Courtesy of Brent Moore Let’s talk about rabbits. Not bugs bunny. Not those furry pets that people say are adorable but don’t ever really do much (I apologize to any pet bunny enthusiasts, but cats beat bunnies for me, and dogs beat them both in my heart). I want to talk about farm rabbits
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Somehow, Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and so what better time to talk about the turkey enterprise. Admittedly, this is one of the enterprises that we often forget when we make lists or attempt to answer the question of what we will be doing on the farm, but turkeys have been on our radar
